News
-
Join the protest against the higher education cuts 13 November 2024Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a...
-
Flash interview with alumnus Willemijn de Best, who secured major music stars as clients 12 November 2024Willemijn de Best’s career path led her to the media sector. Besides the more obvious legal professions, a degree in law actually offers many other po...
-
Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy 07 November 2024The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. O...
-
Alumnus Heidi Burrows: ‘Children are inherently vulnerable’ 04 November 2024What is it like to study law in the Netherlands as an international? Alumnus Heidi Burrows came to the Netherlands from the UK to study International ...
-
From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China 31 October 2024Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fift...
-
New research to get young people back into reading for pleasure 30 October 2024Young people are more likely to find long texts unappealing to read, particularly with all the digital distractions. To improve young people’s reading...
-
From LUC to the front of the classroom: a journey from student to educator 29 October 2024From exploring global issues at Leiden University College (LUC) to shaping young minds in the classroom, LUC alumna Malou den Dekker shares how her ac...
-
Maps and atlases collection Bodel Nijenhuis available for online search 23 October 2024With the addition of over 16,500 new catalogue records, the collection of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872) is now almost entirely searcha...
-
Reconnecting in Leiden, 15 years after graduation 17 October 2024During the first weekend of October, a group of fourteen Master of Arts in European Union Studies alumni returned to the place it all began, 15 years ...
-
Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy 17 October 2024Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...
-
Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre 17 October 2024Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
-
In Memoriam: Ruchama Noorda 16 October 202415 March 1979 - 11 October 2024
-
Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets 16 October 2024Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?
-
Sign the petition against the higher education cuts 15 October 2024Universities will be hit hard by the announced cuts to higher education. Essential disciplines and jobs will disappear. And a fine will be introduced ...
-
Did your family also study in Leiden? 14 October 2024Did your grandfather or grandmother also study in Leiden? And your parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters...?